#WhiteIdentityPolitics among South African elites, Boersema argues “masquerades as a process of unlearning racism, because it co-opts the ideas of non-white people, and sometimes non-white people themselves. However, its goal is to promote White racial self-interest while masking racial inequality and White privilege”

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“[White] South Africans imagined unlearning #racism as a collective challenge, a uniquely South African idea they saw neither limited to "coming to terms with the past" nor solved by embracing the ideal of nonracialism. Rather, White South Africans saw unlearning racism as a goal of reconfiguring Whiteness away from an ideology of White superiority and privilege and toward something else: to be White without Whiteness.”

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